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Memories of Hu Fa-kuang shared at mega bookfair

SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE. Large areas of crumbling old buildings in Kowloon needed to be knocked down and replaced, everyone agreed. This was in the late 1980s, and the Hong Kong government, run by the British, said they would inject HK$100 million into a group called the Land Development Corporation. Problem solved? No, not…

August 1, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

Culture

Rain spoiled their picnic: so he invented the umbrella

MORE THAN TWO millennia ago, a young man and his sister decided to go a scenic spot called the West Lake for a picnic. But then it began to rain heavily. The pair, along with other sightseers, hurried to find shelter at nearby pavilions. From there, they found out that they could look out at…

July 27, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

Opinion

Decolonizing Hong Kong on the eve of the second handover

The real issue underlying the Hong Kong discussion today is decolonization. By 1914, almost 85% of the world was colonized by Western powers, including this part of China. Over the decades, the West withdrew from most colonies, but not from Hong Kong, which it liked to use as a tool against mainland China. American…

July 27, 20220Comments ByDaniel Vukovich

Features

Forget the mega-cities; here’s what most of China is really like

The average Chinese person lives in a small city you've never heard of - and that's where you begin to gain a deeper understanding of the people and the country. FOR FOUR DAYS, I've been in southern Hunan in the city of Chenzhou (郴州). Chenzhou is not a big or famous…

July 26, 20220Comments ByDavid Fishman

Culture

Tang Clan arrived in Hong Kong long before the British

HONG KONG HAS a fascinating history behind its futuristic cityscape. And much of the history dates back centuries before the British era. Yuen Long’s Ping Shan is one of the most historically significant places in Hong Kong – and there's a heritage trail where visitors can marvel in a cluster of well-preserved …

July 26, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

Opinion

We may be Hongkongers but we’re also immigrants

THE DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION of the contemporary population of Hong Kong might appear to be homogeneous, where 92% of the population is ethnic Chinese, as shown in the 2016 by-census. However, in recent years, a narrative has spread across some generations in Hong Kong calling for the reidentification of the people and asking for a review…

July 26, 20220Comments ByAndrew Lam

Opinion

‘What made you stop trusting the international media?”

Top cause was coverage of Hong Kong, followed by the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, say respondents to a social media tweet that quickly turned into a fast-growing discussion FASCINATING DISCUSSION HAPPENING on social media at the moment. It started yesterday with Twitter user Leon Lu posing a question: “When did you lose trust…

July 20, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

In China, drunks can use app to summon a sober friend

UH-OH. YOU’VE HAD too many drinks. You’re too intoxicated to drive home. But you can’t take a taxi because you don’t want to abandon your car in the bar's car park. What do you do? Reach for your phone. A new category of app called Dai Jia (代駕) - literally "designated driver"- lets you summon…

July 19, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

News

China builds train loop the size of a country

CHINA BUILT A TRAIN track as big as a country—and they did much of it on shifting sands. The new Xinjiang railway loops around the huge Taklamakan desert, a patch of sand so large it could swallow the countries of the United Kingdom plus the whole of Ireland. It wasn’t just the size of the…

July 19, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

Features

The garden-maker of Kowloon

Violent death arrived in Hong Kong on December 8, 1941. Japanese troops took just four days to chase most British forces out of Kowloon. But one old European horticulturalist, who lived in a house in Ho Man Tin, turned his home into a sanctuary for hundreds of westerners—and defended it with guns. Meno Monteir tells…

July 19, 20220Comments ByMeno Monteir

Memories of Hu Fa-kuang shared at mega bookfair

Rain spoiled their picnic: so he invented the umbrella

Decolonizing Hong Kong on the eve of the second handover

Forget the mega-cities; here’s what most of China is really like

Tang Clan arrived in Hong Kong long before the British

We may be Hongkongers but we’re also immigrants

‘What made you stop trusting the international media?”

In China, drunks can use app to summon a sober friend

China builds train loop the size of a country

The garden-maker of Kowloon

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